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Category Archives: bird
If You Wet It, They Will Come … or Building a Better Bird Feeder! By Rob Hansen – Sequoia Riverlands Trust Blog – July 28, 2011 http://sequoiariverlands.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/if-you-wet-it-they-will-come- or-building-a-better-bird-feeder/
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“And there be now many men of great wisdom, learning and experience, which love and practice this art, that know I speak the truth.” –The Compleat Angler In school some kids have parents with cool jobs and some don’t. Working … Continue reading
Failure to protect wetlands puts migratory waterbirds at risk http://www.optimumpopulation.org/blog/?p=2428
Many people enjoy watching ospreys. The Maine-based Biodiversity Research Institute has a webcam on an osprey nest in Pleasant Cove, Woolwich, Maine. When I was growing up, my mother used to point out the osprey nests in that cove as … Continue reading
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Spring migration is underway throughout the United States. At the ASWM offices in Windham, Maine we are conducting our own migration although a very modest one. Over the weekend we moved our offices across the street. An event which was … Continue reading
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Tagged Platte River, Rainwater Basin, sandhill cranes, spring migration, wetlands, whooping cranes
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My favorite writer, Daphne du Maurier, wrote the creepy novelette, “The Birds,” (1952) which Hitchcock made into one of his more famous films in 1963. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the story was an analogy of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bird attack, birds attacking people in wetlands, Hitchcock, red-winged blackbird, swooping birds, The Birds, wetlands
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A dearly-departed friend of my mother’s was the well-known bird carver Charles “Chippy” Chase (1908 – 1998), who I remember as a very funny man with creative hands and big ears. Chippy worked in my grandmother’s garage on High Street … Continue reading
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Tagged antique decoys, bird carver, bird carvers, birds, Charles Chase, decoy, decoy collector, wetlands
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July is the month that bird hunters buy their migratory bird stamps, aka “duck stamps,” at their local post office, nearby national wildlife refuge and various sporting outlet stores. Here in Maine, that would be LLBean. Hunters know it’s important … Continue reading
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This weekend I traveled up the interstate to Maine International Film Festival www.miff.org in Waterville to see the American Premiere of Ghost Bird, a documentary by filmmaker Scott Crocker about the events surrounding the extraordinary sightings of the ivory billed … Continue reading
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